@colmmacc@gabbifish It is never disputed though that Raft is fundamentally different from Paxos. Even Raft authors call it to be just a more "understandable", implementation friendly and maintainable version of Paxos.
@houlihan_rick @2dbrain @MongoDB I have a lot of respect for you Rick, but this statement literally made me laugh & cringe at the same time.
The original Dynamo paper was an engineering architecture paper written by PhDs and Distinguished Engineers at Amazon, not a devex book.
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